More than 4 lights?

[MarianG]

Hi. I know that there is a limit of 4 lights but can I avoid this? :)) I have a ground and 8 different draggable spotlights, just this One idea was to slice the ground in two pieces, but these spots are draggable and ca light on both ground pieces.

[Guest]

This is an old limit we do not have anymore

http://doc.babylonjs.com/babylon101/lights#limitations

[MarianG]

Thanks. So no options on this way...

Maybe a custom shader? I have a headache only when I think on this

[Wingnut]

I think 8 is ok.  But I seem to hit a wall at 11.  10 or under... let's party!  (in FF 52 ESR)

errr... something.

https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#IRVAX#64

 

[MarianG]

Interesting, so the limit is 4, but we can increase it till 10. Good to know. Thanks

[NasimiAsl]

if you have salon or Regular successive lights i think you can make ultimate lights ( no shadow ) for your material

[Wingnut]

...on SOME platforms.     Notice the "beware" in the docs link that Delta provided.

Can I assume you are male, MG?  ('Marian' just like John Wayne's real first name?)

Cuz, really, all mobile devices are made for girls and gimby-doodles.  No John Wayne-like real man.. would ever want to use one. 

When REAL men go mobile, they take a desktop, a generator, a couple cans of gas, and an Army-like Jeep.

Now THAT'S a mobile device! 

Waiting for girlie devices to get enough power to be anywhat useful... really made the computer industry do a tech-backslide of about 25 years.

There's probably about a quadrillion mobile devices (including remote controls, game controllers, and wireless mice) already in the dumps, and the numbers keep growing.

Manufacturing limp, non-upgradable, non-repair-able things... is never a good idea.

Mobiles are the Bic lighter of the electronics world.  Use for awhile, then throw it in a dump where it never bio-degrades.  Brilliant.

Plus, folks have spent SO MANY HOURS de-powering great software... so it runs on a walkie-talkie-like mobile handful of garbage - terrible.

Damn, that's some gruesome bashing, eh?  I need to do that sometimes... to make sure I'm still alive.     I'm just joking-around, of course, but not really.   

[NasimiAsl]

this sample have 256(16*16)  light on one salon

http://bomb.5kb.me/

[JackFalcon]

@MarianGthis also got me. @DeltakoshThanks for the very nice clear answer. @Wingnut was a big help when lights stopped at 10 a year back... with various lighting experiments (kudos +1, thx). Disco ball is a classic. And prior ones great too.

 <JOKE removed>.

 @NasimiAsl, 3Dbomberman is great. Much better than the original. 

[MarianG]

10 hours ago, Wingnut said:

Can I assume you are male, MG? 

Yes  
 

10 hours ago, NasimiAsl said:

this sample have 256(16*16)  light on one salon

http://bomb.5kb.me/

Nice @NasimiAsl. Can you please point me to the light section on your code, or maybe a little playgroung extremely simple will help alot. Thank you.

[NasimiAsl]

sure https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#M3CBYN#1

https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#M3CBYN#2

final

https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#M3CBYN#6

specular is a little heavy 

[MarianG]

Cool. Thanks

[Wingnut]

That's a LOT of friggin' lights!  hehe.  Cooooool.  My dog got scared, but I didn't.    Not yet.  thx Naz!

@aFalcon I think the truck-in-pocket joke was worth keeping active.    It could promote on-going "big pocket jokes"  heh

[JackFalcon]

Wow, a dance floor to go with a disco ball...

[JackFalcon]

@Wingnut Ha!

I bet it is easy to sequence colored lights up spiral of a fibonacci curve or something like it. Color3.random();

 

[Wingnut]

  But to get the true rock show effect... they gotta be spots... and they gotta have fake-volumetric smoke wafting thru their beams... using cones and fire/lava texture.

http://playground.babylonjs.com/#2IGNZ2#4

Now, ya do them big spot-array pans/tilts... to the beat of the music...  40 spots move here, 60 spots move there, and of course... you'll need a huge GUI lighting control/show-programming console...  which uses its own script language... likely with Wingy's world famous spin/spinTo/move/MoveTo funcs.  They are now script commands for your programmable lighting controller console.

I predict 2 FPS. 

And just for fun, make it so if you aim 100 or more lights, full power, at a mesh... it starts on fire.  COOOOOOL!  heh

Speaking of Fibonacci, didn't @jerome say something about building us some Phi-infested conch shells and pine cones... using BabylonJS ribbons?  hmm.     Perhaps it was someone else who said that.